Category: The Seattle Times

I feel like I have waaay more photos of Joseph than Paul (second kid syndrome) so we took some Valentine’s Day pictures.

Dinner tonight for my ABC children: red bean rice balls in honor of yuan shiao jie and pizza in honor of National Pizza Day (?!).      

Happy new year!   . . . . . . Shot with a self-timer and tripod. . .        

Snow in Seattle is a BIG deal. Half an inch in our yard, nothing on the streets or sidewalks and we still managed to go “sledding” (mostly on the grass though?). Joseph was devastated when he came home from school and it’d all melted away. But another .00001 inches fell overnight, so another 2-hour delay, YAY!…

Sweater camouflage. (Seattle Art Museum) Four fantastic hats at the Frye. Northwest Native art at SAM.

A change of scenery for a few days makes me see how nutty Seattle’s growth is. Only one crane in downtown Portland! . . Synchronized waffle eating. The continental breakfast at the hotel was ALL MY DREAMS COME TRUE. Food I didn’t have to make! We saw the special exhibition at OMSI where this guy…

Happy 2020! I left a job I loved after having Joseph, and after many years as a SAHM stumbled into the perfect niche: writing and shooting stories about fun places to go with kids. Which is what I’d be doing anyway, except I get paid for it. This year my baby will be ⁠— GULP ⁠— going…

My first Seattle Times byline!! Boston travel package ran in Sunday’s paper, and it’s online here. The week we spent in Boston was the longest and fanciest vacation we’ve ever had together. We saw so much of this fascinating city thanks to our Boston expert, who put together a super OCD itinerary for me because I…

For spring break we took a quick trip to HOLLAND to see those famous tulips! Gosh, what an epic day trip. I can’t get enough of those beautiful rows of blooms. This year we went to Tuliptown, which has smaller tulip fields than Roozengaarde, but it has a big grassy field for kite flying. .…